Improvement in well-augers



J. B. CHRISTIAN.

Improvement in Well-Augers.

No. 131,427. Patented Sep.17, 1872.

UNITED STATES PATENT. QFFIGE.

JOHN B. CHRISTIAN, OF HAMBURG, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT lN WELL-AUGERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,427, dated September 17, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN B. CHRISTIAN, of Hamburg, in the county of Fremont and in the State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Well-Angers; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the auger,

bucket, and shaft of a well-boring machine, as-

and Fig. 4 represents the shaft.

A represents the ground-frame, with a bedpiece, B, elevaterlaboveyand suitably braced to said frame. (311 this bed-piece is arranged the horse-power G, for operating my wellauger, and to raise the bucket. The auger consists of two bits, D D, bolted to a piece, E, of wrought-iron, which piece is beveled on the sides that the bits cut. In the center of this wrought-iron piece E is secured a shaft, G, the end of which projects below to form the center-point of the auger. The bucket H is made of heavy sheet-iron, with a bottom, I, placed in the same, said bottom being made in separate pieces, as shown in Fig. 2, hung on hinges, so as to form two halves. One section of each half is hinged to the side of the bucket, while the other section is supported by a hook, a, formed on the lower end of a vertical rod, b, which passes through suitable eyes or loops ,on the inside of the bucket, and is provided with a suitable handle at its upper end for turning the same. Theboring-shaftmill be made square, about one and one-half inch thick, and in as many pieces as may be necessary to reach down the desired depth. In the bottom, or, rather, the lower end of the bucket H, is'a bar, (1, with square hole, to allow the shafting to not help coming down the shaft in its proper place, no matter how deep the well. When the auger is in motion the lips inthe bottom of the bucket will rise, and allow the dirt to pass around on the bottom of the bucket. When the bucket is loaded, I raise a sleeve or coupling, f, connecting the two upper sections G and G of the shafting, which sleeve or coupling should be fastened by a set-screw. Under this square coupling is a round coupling, e, as shown in Fig. 4. When the coupling f is raised from oft the round coupling 0 the lever on the horse-power is lowered, so as to turn the capstan, and the horse being started the top shaft G will revolve on the round coupling. The capstan will draw the chain h, which is attached to a cross-bar, k, in the upper end of the bucket, and thus draw the bucket up the shaft till it strikes projections z t on the section G which should be just the length of the bucket. This section will then uncouple at the bottom of the bucket. The upper section G is then slipped off the round coupling, leaving the section G in the bucket.

The bucket is then carried away by a derrick, and emptied by letting the bottom drop out. It is then swung back, the section G coupled at the bottom and the'top, and the .sleeve or coupling flowered over the round what I claim as new, and desire to secure by H with bottom I, all substantially as and for Letters Patent, isthe purposes herein set forth.

1. The shaft forwell-augersherein described, In testimony that I claim the foregoing I having the sections G G G projections i i, have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of round coupling 0, and. square coupling f, sub- April, 1872.

stantially as and for the purposes herein set JOHN B. CHRISTIAN. forth.

2. The combination of the sectional shaft G Witnesses: G G and. its projections 6 L and couplings e f J. W. DALBEY, with the auger-bits D and. bar E, and bucket C. L. EVERT. 

